Excerpted from Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within. “One piece of evidence for the holographic nature of nonstandard fields that have been proposed in recent years — the zero-point field (a candidate for the unified field), the psi field of psychic phenomena, Ervin Laszlo’s Akashic field, and the morphic field proposed by Rupert Sheldrake — is that they all share a common feature: sensitivity to similarity in vibration.

“If a holographic image has many different holograms embedded within it, shining a laser of a specific frequency upon it will cause only those holograms made with lasers of the same frequency to stand out. That’s because things with the same vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another — just as two violin strings at the same pitch resonate with one another. This property of resonance has [also] been used to explain how each of us might interact with mysterious fields like the psi or Akashic fields… People pick up only that with which they personally ‘resonate’. Each individual’s resonant frequency, determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body, limits what they can perceive.

“Biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance also depends upon similarity in vibration. Members of the same species, being ‘on the same wavelength’, are able to tap into information that pertains uniquely to them. And while members of an entire species might be able to tune into a fairly broad spectrum of frequencies (think of Carl Jung’s notion of the collective unconscious that humans supposedly tap into), smaller, more tightly connected groups — such as members of the same family or loving couples — resonate in more focused zones of vibration; they have access to their own ‘private frequency.’ In fact, Sheldrake goes even further and suggests that morphic fields can explain how human memory operates. Instead of being stored in our brains, he suggests that memories are stored in the morphic field. Our brains then pick them up via resonance, like radios tuning to their own private stations.

“The reality we experience each day may be flooded with fields of meaning. One field might embody the horror and violence of 9/11. Another field might be associated with a hope for rebirth. Each field of meaning has a particular vibration to it, and objects, individuals, emotions, dreams, and events with similar vibrations will tend to resonate with one another and then co-occur. This is what creates synchronicities.”

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Read the quick list at How It Works for an overview of why and how you can design your own afterlife.

Think about what you believe your afterlife will be like — and if it's not what you want, think about what you want your afterlife to be like — and believe that.

Do enough investigation and thinking and imagining and soul-searching to design an afterlife that you can really get behind, one that feels right to you. You are dreaming it up. Make it a place you can imagine entering in a dream, a place you can imagine your dream body being happy to live.

If you're excited by the idea of your afterlife being a spiritual quest, a quest for truth and exploration of consciousness, maybe you have, or can get, some ideas about how that can play out. Expect what you want.

Improve your dreams. Spend the last few minutes before sleep in a positive frame of mind, feeling gratitude, imagining what you would love to have in your life, asking questions you'd love to have answers to, sending love to people — praying, in a way. Maybe imagine beautiful scenes, maybe listen to music you love. This small bit of preparation will help you make a good entrance into your dreamworld and is good practice for a happy afterlife.

For more influence, learn to lucid dream.

“Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov speaks eloquently on the importance of entering the subconscious mind with a purity of spirit because each night we die — and if we don't know how to prepare for our nightly death, we will be unprepared for our true departure to the other world.” — Wayne Dyer

Don't be afraid of the afterlife. Don't feel guilty about anything. Don't worry. Be your own best friend, and put your mind and your consciousness in the best place for you. You're in charge. Expect the best. Enjoy your adventure.